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Volume 72 ,Number 154 Sunday, May 3, 1964 "Hey George! Td like you to meet my parents! ReteWiiUx Hi Sty Satlij Qfetr"3f?l 71 Years of Editorial Freedom Offices on the second floor of Grlisi Memorial. Telephone number: EtorUl. sports, news 923-1012. Basinessi eir. eolation, advertisin-933-ll83. Address: Box 1080, Chapel ttSfc'N. C Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office In Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant U Act of March 8, 1S7. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; (8 per year. Published dally except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca iemis year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Ine Ml West Franklin Street, Chapei ffiU, N. C THE DAILY TAR HEEL Is a subscriber Id United Press International and utilizes die services of the University News Bureau. t I I I! Our University Pays Tribute To A Friend Mac Secrest Communists And GORE As our great University passes down its long- and storied road, there .pass with it many men both great and small Msome to pause on their way for many years and leave their very lives entwin ed in our daily lives, others merely to touch and change for a moment. Of this latter group, perhaps none has come who touched so quickly or inspired so much as John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He came only for a fleeting hour, ad dressing thousands in the warmth of Kenan Stadium's brilliant sun on Octo ber 12, 1961. Figuratively, he did little more than extend a hand of greeting to this institution and offer his profuse thanks for an honorary degree. But in doing that, he preserved a special place for himself in the heart of the Univer sity and in the hearts and minds of many individuals. When he was swept away, the University community lost a dear friend. One week from today, thousands will again mass in Kenan Stadium to pay tribute to John F. Kennedy. Billy Gra ham, a long-time personal friend of the late President, will deliver the main ad dress, and notables from every section of North Carolina will join in the Mem orial Service. Many will be in attendance who were there more than two and a half years ago, basking-irTthe sun as he spoke. There wall be otfiers who opposed Mr. Kennedy's political philosophies who will divest themselves temporarily of issues and come to pay their respects to "a great, and good .man." And most of all there will be many who, for one reason or another,: considered John F. Kennedy a friend a friend for whom they wish to show their respect and admiration. The service is an ambitious project, designed to raise more than $230,000 in contributions for the Kennedy Lib rary in Massachusetts. Such a library is a fitting memorial for a president whose intellectual achievements were extraordinary, and it will stand as an inspiration for millions" of Americans to see and use. The private citizens of North Carolina who have planned the Memorial Service have expressed their hope that North Carolina and her peo ple will play a large part in the estab1 lishment of this appropriate memorial, and have asked all of us to .support this important project. Truly, John Fitzgerald Kennedy found a special place in this University, and it is altogether fitting that it should serve as the site of a tribute. And. although the cost of individual tickets to t h e Memorial Service will probably prohibit most Of us from being in attendance, it would be appropriate for .campus groups and organizations t6 send delegations to the service, wherfeylr possible, to represent the individuals who would like to do something for a friend. We Don't Reach Far For This Back Pat From time to timg in our daily pur suits we pause a moment to give some individual or group a well-deserved "pat on the back" for an outstanding ac hievement, award, victory, or similar distinction. It is especially heartwarm ing to be able to extend such congratu lations to those with whom we work every day eight members or former members of the Daily Tar Heel staff who were cited as winners in the recent Charlotte Observer college newspaper contest. Between them, these eight people grabbed 13 of the 23 awards given in the contest, and the DTH itself was Cited for its excellence. In addition, the Hearst Foundation has declared Journalism the UNC School of journalism its top winner for the year in its writing contests, the first time that the school has achieved this position. Three writers. Curry Kirkpatrick, Mickey Blackwell and Jim Clotfelter are among the top ten prizewinners for the year in the Hearst contests. These honors, of course, are import ant to the individuals who win them. They pave the way to better job op portunities in the journalism field, arid they add prestige to the papers for which the students work and the school in which they are trained. But even more important, they are one small way in which an individual can prove to him self, in reviewing all the unrewarded long hours and the uncompensated hard work, that it was worth it after all. Reason, Not A Retreat To The Rear The. Knickerbocker News The proposal by Senator Hubert Humphrey to ease concern of the Civil Rights Bill's opponents by including a statement against job quotas makes good sense. Quotas the setting of ratio between Negroes and whites have no place in a civil rights measure and are, in fact, a negation of the idea. It repeatedly has to be explained that one of the. bill's aims is not to force the hiring . of a Negro in preference to a Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens " Co-Editors Managing Editor John Montague Associate Editor Mickey Blackwell Editorial Page Editor Pete Wales News Editor Dennis Sanders Copy Editor Nancy McCracken Sports Editor Larry Tarleton Photo Editor Jim Wallace Editorial Assistant Shirley Travis Staff Artist Chip Barnard Reviews Henry Mclnhis Special Assistant Becky Biggers white, but to establish the fact that no one, no matter what his background, is to be discriminated against solely be cause of it. The honored concept that all men are created equal does not extend to their abilities. It is up to everyone to develop those abilities so he can compete on the open market. The thought is that a man stand on his own two feet, but that he not be swept off them at the outset be cause of something he cannot control. The important employment proposals in the Civil Rights Bill are contained in Title VII. They provide: (1) That there be no discrimination by employers or unions with more than 25 employes or members, and (2) that a Fair Employ ment Opportunity Commission with teeth in it be established empowered to bring suit when it cannot end discrim ination by persuasion. The court, not the commission, incidentally, would de termine extent, of the discrimination. Thus, if the Humphrey suggestion . may seem a back-down in. the face of the powerful voice xrf segregation in the Senate, it is not. If it appears as such to segregationists, that's fine and dan dy, but the fact is that it is simply the course of reason. (From the Cheraw, S. fc., Chronicte) We write this Wednesday after noon. We haven't heard yet whether the stall-in drive at the New York World's Fair came off. Let's hope not. ft was a Crack pot idea to begin with. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has said there is some Red infiltra tion of the Negro protest move ment. Of course there .is. The communists try" to infiltrate everything. Hoover reminds, us of a saying of the Reds: that "communist work often is done by non-communist hands." It is conceivable that some of the civil rights leaders of ex tremist bent are unconsciously being manipulated. It will be a pity if they are dupes of com munists, for nothing could serve their cause more dangerously. Of course the communists are not interested in civil liberties. Karl Marx never taught anything about that, and Soviet leaders certainly have never granted civil rights to their own people. They distainfully consider con cern over individual freedom pet ty "bourgeois" weakness. Since plans to foul up opening day at the Fair play into the hands of the opponents of the civil rights bill and since the only interest communists have in this domestic crisis is the . em barrassment they can cause this country, one wonders what part subversion might play. Plans to tie up metropolitan traffic, to leave water running to exhaust the city's water supply, to pull emergency cords on sute ways and trains, this is anarchy . which no self-respecting govern ment can tolerate. If Negroes were barred from the World's Fair, peaceful dem onstrations would be justified. But they aren't. They are wel comed. To cause wholesale suf fering andor inconvenience to everyone just to dramatize the problem is wrong, and, what's more, it is foolish. If Negro leaders believe they will gain sympathy from the white majority or force action on the civil rights bill in this fashion, they're deluding them selves. They will simply succeed in encouraging their opponents. .They will only infuriate people who want a respite from all the tension and torture, who want to enjoy the fair. These people won't feel guilty only resentful, and they will express that guilt in a backlash against the demon strators. We really can't blame them much. The extremists on one side enable those on the other to settle back in smug self righteousness: If Wallace does well in Indiana, he can thank the Brooklyn and Cleveland Chapters of CORE. Sensible, moderate people must not. alter their course, be cause of this sort of thing. Law and order must be upheld and the rioters punished. But those who believe in freedom and hum an dignity must keep on working,- no matter how difficult some of those very people for wxiuiu uiey are worKing may make it. Nor should communist interference be permitted to make any difference. Knowing the communists only interest is in causing trouble, and hence in defeating the civil rights move ment, those who favor fair play must continue to struggle for it. Americans' are not ready to tUrn the country over to revo lutionists, nihilists and the like. The troublemakers should be curbed. Responsible leaders in both major political parties have decried the recent threats, as have many civil rights leaders themselves. Much of the 'responsibility for the present situation lies with those who have shut their eyes to .reality, who have refused to budge until forced to, who will' never take action, or even ac knowledge any problem, until whipped into it. Govs. Barnett and Wallace are responsible for much, that is going on in N. Y. now. But then so are the lily white suburbanites, who have al ways held themselves above it all, and so are we "upper middle class Southerners" who ought to have furnished some leadership in the matter, yet abdicated our responsibilities way back in the 1950's. After all, where did Isiah Branson come from? Sumter S..C. Those of us who foresaw the dangers early and warned against them, often at the risk of enduring the slings and arrows of an outraged public, may have earned the right, but we take absolutely no pleasure in saying, , ' " ' j . 4- ' ' ' r ' i - -', " " - " , ; " ' -V v -4V , I - - r- t- 5 ' ,V - - T- - - : I Kit. " I " b 11 r- ' - - -' ' U ;v ' A' ' 5 " - ; ? ;i J, h: - ,i ',? ; ; - j Thoughts or Sunday AJL Sunday morning is the tirr.o f -quiet contemplation of the : ; and one's ideals . . . mair,!-, ) keep your mind off the r.:.; .t i . fore and the day ahead. Thus we , feel that it is , - r t ..t,. duty to pf ', i1.. I vour sou! i j Letters To The Editors YBC, Statesville Defended Undergraduates Sought By Dems Editors, The Daily Tar Heel: 'We told you so." Letters The Daily Tar Heel in vites comments on current topics from its readers re gardless of viewpoint. All letters to the editors shoald be typewritten, doable spaced and of reasonable length. All letters must be signed, with the address of the author. No letter con sidered libelous or in poor taste will be printed. Mr. Seely's column of Thurs day is so obvious a diatribe that I am hesitant to dignify it by -answering. But because it rais ed fundamental questions about the Young Democratic Club on campus, questions on which I . welcome an opportunity to state my views, I am accepting his offer of equal space. I am in wholehearted agreement with the contention that "the Law School has ' long had an iron grip on the Y.D.C." I am equal ly firm in the conviction that this is a sad state of affairs. But this is only one side of the coin. During my senior year as an undergraduate I made frequent efforts to bring undergraduates into the YDC. The answer to my proddings was always somewhat as follows: "I intend to become active when I get in Law School, when I get back home, but not now. I am too busy with Student Government (Or the Y, or my church group, etc.)." That attitude still prevails. When the undegraduates sought the presidency last year, they ran a candidate who had never at tended a meeting of the UNC YDC. I could not vote for such a person then, nor could I now. Early last fall I talked to the per son who had been the undergrad uate candidate for president and to other undergraduates who had shown . an interest in the YDC. I told them that if they were in terested in having an undergradu ate president next year, they should begin grooming someone for the job, i.e., seeing that this person attended meetings on the campus and state level, that he familiarized himself with the College YDC Federation, etc. I told them that if an undergradu ate was prepared for the job and interested in running, I would gladly step aside and support him; but that otherwise I would probably , seek the office. No such undergraduate appear ed. The . fact that I had no op position is at least partial testi mony to that. I very much wish that one had. No serious student of the law has the time for the job that it demands. Moreover, no law student has the contacts in the remainder of the student body that he needs to build the organi zation enecuveiy. i stated in my opening remarks as president that one of the major goals of my administration would be close cooperation with the undergradu ate vice president in an effort to bring undergraduates into a more active role in the club. I now re peat that pledge for the benefit of the whole campus. It is my sincere hope that next year some undergraduate will be interested enough to want the presidency and go out and seek it in a de serving manner. If so, I shall do all I can to help him secure elec tion.; . As to the charge that those who elected, me. were: supporters of a ? particular gubernatorial can didate, I would say only that these were also the. people who have been faithful YDC mem bers all year. As to the suggestion that the meeting was purposely not publi cized, your column admits that the announcement was lost in the shuffle at the Daily Tar Heel of fice. You certainly should not blame the YDC when the news paper staff is not alert enough to pick up a good story. Indeed, a good newspeper would be all over a story that it considered important enough to merit a front page editorial when it missed it. Further, the YDC will not en dorse any candidate for Govern or. It is against our constitution and our principles to do so. In the primaries we work hard as individuals for the candidates of our choice but once the voters have spoken, we unite behind the winner. This has long been the basic philosophy of the organiza tion and under my presidency, it shall continue to be so. If the editors of the Tar Heel are genuinely interested in the YDC, I invite them to become active participants and attend at least one meeting during the year, rather than being content with casting an annual editorial barb. I welcome the participation . and leadership of all undergraduates. In the coming year we shall share the responsibility of elect ing Lyndon Johnson to the Presi dency of the United States. We have the responsibility of elect ing a Democrat to the Governor ship and continuing the habit of good government in North Caro lina. These are responsibilities that students should take seriously. They transcend the domain of petty attacks on individuals and groups. They demand the utmost in thought and energy from all whose concern for the future has found its channel in the Demo cratic Party. I invite all Young Democrats to join our cause, not just on elec tion night, but in the less glamor ous months between elections. diet of suicide. If Mr. Carlton had been murder ed, as Mr. Heermance indicated, letter, and if convicted, should have had a trial by jury, not by letter, and if convisted, should have paid for such a terribte crime against society. The author of Tuesday's letter was so bold as to say that Mr. Carlton was shot because he sought to work for racial prog ress through peaceful and legal means. It is not for us to decide how Mr. Carlton died or even the motives of the person responsible for his death. Our system of jus tice leaves that to the police and the courts. All evidence collected for the inquest pointed to suicide. We feel that the citizens of Statesville and even of the South were injured by Mr. Heermance's letter and we further feel that he owes us a retraction. William L. Connolly Jim Rogers Bill Graham the apprurri.:-; materials I Our select,:--; for the duv ;; the UNC (';. .. ogue of t h p ?hool year I' 1889, the st'c-i n on discipline. First of all the prospective student is presented with the . o basic requirements of the Univer sity in the area of discipline: 1) To use your time properly, and 2) To stay out of vice. The incoming freshman i? fur. ther informed that he must ex tend all classes 'an absurdly today), perform his work faith fully (note the esoteric aduiti and keep quiet during stu.ly hours (this one is still on tie books). Students are not allowed b carry or use (especially cn ore another) pistols and other dan gerous weapons. (This falls under vice). They are forbidden from .drinking, indulging in hazing and leaving Chapel Hill unless granted permission of the Prei dent or the Chairman of the Faculty. After this terrifying load of regulations, the new student is comforted by the statement: . "Every temptation to vice is put away as far as possible." This is followed with the con cluding threatening note: "Stu dents who are willfully vicious, idle or disorderly are not desired at the University and are remov ed from it as soon as possible." Upon reading these harsh rules, one is relieved that that the situation has improved since then under the relaxed leadership of our modern Administration. No longer is idleness a sin, and no more is one admonished to use one's time properly. In fact there is no longer any ac cepted rule for what things are proper to spend one's time on. No more is the student forced to walk four miles to the nearest liquor store. The stores have been moved closer and we are allowed cars to get us there. Temptations to vice are r.o longer removed as far as pos sible from Chapel Hill. We're coeducational now, and Durham is only ten miles away. Finally, if they expelled stu dents who were willfully vicious, what sort of football team were they able to field. If you have any doubts as to the effectiveness of this system, however, we refer you to one of its products, then a mischievous sophomore at the University: John Motley Morehead. Just goes to prove that no vice and well-planned use of time makes jack . . . plenty of it. Ponder that this Sunday. Primitive Sounds Dominate The Airways All Day Long By IIENRY McINNIS The savage beast is supposed to be charmed by music. And there are as many types and qualities of music as there are animals in the jungle. Radio WKIX beats out the jungle drums on a 24-hour sche dule broadcasting primeval har monies to the hunter-lands with unrelenting beat. In case any slow listeners forget this station blasts out its identification with a choir pitched in tumultuous tones quickly rising to peaks of a near-scream. Bill Whichard, President of UNC YDC It. Lane Brown in, past President of UNC YDC Negro's Death Was A Suicide Editors, The Daily Tar Heel: We read in Tuesday's Letters to the Editors of the trial and conviction of Statesville for "the murder of a Statesville, N. C, Negro, Benjamin Carlton." We have searched the state papers for the facts that Mr. Carl ton was murdered and have found none. True, he is dead and none of the papers left this in doubt, but by whose hand was un determined at the time of Mr. Heermance's letter. At an inquest held in States ville Wednesday, an all Negro panel rendered a unanimous ver- If you want to hear restful music .you must either tune In to FM radio or keep a late night vigil. Otherwise, the dul cet peace of the symphony will be drowned out by the talent less zombies who capitalize on the non-musical tastes of the uncritical mass public. There is a disturbing trend of our time 'to try to capture radio audiences by constant battering of loud, pounding and rapid-fire volleys of cute verbal patter, in terlaced with the most popular tunes in the idiot hit-parade. It is true that radio has to hit hard at the teen-age level in order to be in business but what a pathetic sign of our so ciety's values and tates that we pigeonhole classical music for the longhairs, relegating it to the limbos of Sunday pro gramming and hours not exact ly considered prime. Stations that calmed down and offered more of the musical treasures of Western culture in stead of the abundance of hastily written, uncritically accepted and easily and deservedly for gotten "music" are desperately needed. We live in the age of anxiety. A Borodin string quar tet could soothe the public with Us quiet but delicately sensuous harmonies, in a way Doris Day could not possibly do. Durham's WSSB is another example of the feverish tempo so faithfully sustained by its screaming sister in Raleigh. Adolescent - voiced announcers clog the airways with their in sipid and inconsequential ban ter. Their frenzied joviality on ly partly conceals the empty nature of their mission. What should or can be done to raise the cultural level of our musical programs on ra dio? One way is to create more outlets for the classics. A sig nificant factor in the predomi nant popularity of contemporary trash is that radio stations have done too little leading and too much pandering. Newspapers have the respon sibility to educate the public t3 the highest appreciation of In dividual freedom in a demo cratic society. Radio and tele vision implement the eueational function as much by their choke of what the public shall hear as the news-reading public is af fected and influenced by what stories it will read. An American public that is accustomed to the high-powered tensions of our day needs the dulcet tones of music that is as tested by the fires of posterity as our democracy is found meaningful by the surge of his tory. It is our belief that exposure to the best in our WTestem cul ture cannot be accomplished or encouraged unless the commu nications industry does its share of the task. f i
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